Three-million-year-old tools found in Kenya reveal early humans' ability to cut food, butcher meat, and adapt to new diets.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

The capacity might explain how Homo erectus conquered Eurasia, but deepens the mystery about what took our own species so ...

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Homo erectus was able to adapt to and survive in desert-like environments at least 1.2 million years ago, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

New research using climate models provides fascinating insights into how environmental conditions influenced the evolution ...